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- From: jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93@mail.erols.com)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
- Subject: Re: New 16550 serial port card: what's wrong?
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 13:00:57 GMT
- Organization: erols.com
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- In article <4f7g3a$pmg@seminole.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- >jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93@mail.erols.com) wrote:
- >: For only $30, a store around here is selling a Precision Instruments
- >: High Speed Controller Card (ISA Bus, 16c550), supporting 2 16c550
- >: serial ports, an ecp/epp parallel, floppy and game port, etc...
- >:
- >: 1. ......ISA IDE PORT CAN BE SELECTED AS ENABLED OR DISABLED.
- >: PIN DEFINITION DEFAULT OPTION
- >:
- >: Then there are letters under the pin column, definitions like "ISA IDE
- >: PORT EN/DISABLE, default's like "ENABLE (H)", and options like "DISABLE
- (L)".
- >:
- >: That's it! If i could, i would disable anything related to IDE drive,
- since
- >: i don't want that interfering with my hard drive or floppy (both driven
- >: by controller cards in my pc). But there's nothing at all on this
- >
- >Sounds like the "ISA IDE PORT EN/DISABLE" is what you want to set to
- >"disable". That seems to imply that the IDE functions can be disabled and
- >that is what you need to do in order to prevent the conflict you are
- >getting with your other controller card. Now, if your other controller
- >card is also IDE, you could simply remove that and hook everything up to
- >this one.
- >
- >Try that disable and see what happens.
- >
-
-
- I think/hope that the whole point of my original post was the there was no way
- to change the settings (i.e., enable and disable) on that new card. If there
- was a way, i would disable the ide on the card (that's what i was looking for,
- for quite a while before i wrote the post). Yes, it seems to imply that it
- can be disabled. I agree it seems that way. That's the problem though.
- So, thanks anyway.
-